Water of the Sky
A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
- 2025 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Art (Adult Nonfiction)
Artist Miya Ando's beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain collects 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings to describe the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence.
